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Twisted But True: Army of Zombie Cucumbers

Did this voodoo sorcerer use the Datura plant, nicknamed Zombie Cucumber, to create a brigade of mindlessly dedicated servants?

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  • Play Dark Matters: Zombies, Conspiracy and Laughing Gas
    3 Clips Playlist Zombies, Conspiracy and...

    Dark Matters (08:55)

    Did Tesla invent a devastating radio wave weapon? Did a scientist crack the secret of voodoo Zombies? Find out in this episode of Dark Matters: Twisted But True.
  • Play Dark Matters: 21 Grams, Missing Cosmonauts, Sound of Death
    3 Clips Playlist 21 Grams, Missing Cosmonauts,...

    Dark Matters (06:52)

    A Boston medic sets out to weigh the human soul. Did Russia cover up astronauts lost in space? What if sound waves become a new WMD?
  • Play Dark Matters: It's Alive, Mind Control and Alien Hand Syndrome
    3 Clips Playlist It's Alive, Government Mind...

    Dark Matters (06:21)

    Is the original Frankenstein an 1803 Londoner named George? Governments use their own citizens for mind control experiments. A German woman is suddenly attacked...by her own left hand.
  • Play Dark Matters: Einstein's Brain, Unidentified Flying Nazis, Killer Thoughts
    3 Clips Playlist Einstein's Brain, Unidentified...

    Dark Matters (05:55)

    Albert Einstein's brain is stolen during his autopsy. Did the Nazis develop anti-gravity technology? The United States and Russia's psychic arms race.

The Science Channel Clips

  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: Army of Zombie Cucumbers
    Twisted But True: Army of...

    Dark Matters (02:58)

    Did this voodoo sorcerer use the Datura plant, nicknamed Zombie Cucumber, to create a brigade of mindlessly dedicated servants?
  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: Philadelphia Experiment
    Twisted But True: Philadelphia...

    Dark Matters (02:26)

    Do you believe in time travel? See how this theory tries to prove that a ship vanished in thin air, then returned!
  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: Deadly Radio Wave Cover Up
    Twisted But True: Deadly Radio...

    Dark Matters (02:58)

    Evidence shows the FBI hid evidence in the early 1900's that radio waves can kill people. One scientist figured it out, but no one believed him!
  • Play Dark Matters: Weight of the Human Soul
    Weight of the Human Soul

    Dark Matters (02:00)

    Boston medic Dr. Duncan Macdougall sets out to prove the existence of the human soul by weighing a man at the moment of death. If the patient loses weight, Macdougall believes he will have recorded the departure of the man's soul, and science wil ...
  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: Ape Human Hybrid
    Twisted But True: Ape Human...

    Dark Matters (02:59)

    In the 1920s and 30s Soviet scientist Dr. Ilya Ivanov began a series of disturbing experiments to cross breed humans with apes.
  • Play Dark Matters: Stealing Einstein's Brain
    Stealing Einstein's Brain

    Dark Matters (02:01)

    Dr. Thomas Harvey, the pathologist tasked with Albert Einstein's autopsy, steals the greatest brain of the twentieth century. He is convinced the organ can be used to uncover the science behind intellectual genius.
  • Play Dark Matters: Psychic Arms Race
    Psychic Arms Race

    Dark Matters (02:01)

    In 1972 the US Defense Intelligence Agency issues a report on Russia's progressive research on mind control and telekinesis called "Controlled Offensive Behavior: USSR."
  • Play Dark Matters: CIA Mind Control
    CIA Mind Control

    Dark Matters (01:47)

    During the 1960s, the CIA experimented with mind control. But were their efforts successful?
  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: Tripping With Uncle Sam
    Twisted But True: Tripping...

    Dark Matters (02:17)

    Nearly 250 small town residents in the south of France all begin to experience horifying hallucinations all at the same time. A coincidence or secret government experiments?
  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: Shocking Electric Chair Inventor
    Twisted But True: Shocking...

    Dark Matters (02:47)

    Thomas Edison is typically remembered for inventing the light bulb. But did you know he was also responsible for creating a much more sinister device?
  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: Nitrous Oxide
    Twisted But True: Nitrous...

    Dark Matters (02:59)

    How was the laughing gas used by dentists to pacify drill-phobic patients created? Two words: self experimentation.
  • Play Dark Matters: Twisted But True: It's Alive
    Twisted But True: It's Alive

    Dark Matters (02:01)

    Convicted murderer George Foster is publically hanged from a London gallows in January, 1803. His spirit is at rest...but his body has other plans.
 

Dark Matters: Twisted But True takes you inside the laboratory to profile strange science and expose some of history's most bizarre experiments. Hosted by science fiction actor John Noble, of Fringe, Lord of the Rings fame, get ready to delve into the most unusual research ever conducted.

 
 

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